Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are layed waste, river...s grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is... inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe.... What a terrible future!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready ...to spring out at the first real opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting th...e Scripture, 'If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »